Katey Sagal will receive the 2,529th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, honored for a career best known for her 11 seasons portraying outrageous housewife Peg Bundy on the Fox comedy “Married… With Children.”
Ed O’Neill, who played her harried husband Al on “Married… With Children,” and Christina Applegate, who portrayed their sexpot daughter Kelly, will join Sagal in speaking in the 11:30 a.m. ceremony at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Sagal’s star will be next to O’Neill’s in front of the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse store. O’Neill’s star was placed there because he played a shoe salesman on “Married… With Children.”
The ceremony coincides with the season premiere for the seventh and final season of the FX drama “Sons of Anarchy,” in which Segal portrays the matriarch of the titular motorcycle club, a role which brought her a Golden
Globe in 2011 for best actress in a television drama. FX CEO John Landgraf will also be among the speakers.
Born Catherine Louise Sagal on Jan. 19, 1954 in Los Angeles, the daughter of director Boris Sagal and writer-producer Sara Zwilling, Sagal was raised in Brentwood and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts.
Sagal’s first major role was playing a chain-smoking, cynical newspaper columnist in the 1985-86 CBS comedy “Mary,” which starred Mary Tyler Moore.
Five years after the 1997 end of “Married… With Children’s” run, Sagal co-starred with John Ritter in the ABC comedy “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter,” which aired until 2005.
Sagal also made guest-starring appearances on the Fox comedy “That ’70s Show,” the ABC drama “Lost” and the FX police drama, “The Shield.” She also supplied the voice of spaceship captain Leela on the Fox science fiction animated comedy “Futurama.”
Sagal’s made-for-television movie credits include “Smart House,” “Mr. Headmistress,” “Chance of a Lifetime,” “Trail of Tears” and “She Says She’s Innocent.”
Sagal’s feature film credits include “Love Stinks,” “Mail Order,” “The Good Mother,” and the 2000 Sundance Film Festival favorite “Dropping Out.” She will appear in “Pitch Perfect 2,” set to be released on May 15, as the mother of Hailee Steinfeld’s character.
Sagal is also a singer, spending three years as a Harlette with Bette Midler and was a background singer for Bob “Room” in 2004.
